Comparison

Mentes Chat vs fork ai

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Mentes Chat

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Mentes Chat is the AI companion for your second brain. Ask questions about your saved bookmarks and links, and get answers grounded in your personal knowledge. YOUR SECOND BRAIN, NOW CONVERSATIONAL Save web pages and bookmarks with Mentes (mentes.ai). Mentes Chat lets you have conversations with all that knowledge. Instead of searching through folders, just ask. "What did that article say about productivity?" "Summarize the articles I saved last week." "Find the link about React performance I bookmarked." ASK QUESTIONS, GET ANSWERS FROM YOUR CONTENT The AI reads through your saved content to give you accurate, sourced answers. Responses are grounded in your actual saved content โ€” not made up. WEB SEARCH WHEN YOU NEED IT Enable web search to combine your personal knowledge with real-time information from the internet. Get the best of both worlds. DESIGNED FOR YOU - Fast and responsive - Light and dark themes - Keyboard shortcuts - Automatic updates - Secure authentication Mentes Chat requires a Mentes account. Save your bookmarks at mentes.ai, then chat with them here.

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fork ai

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fork ai turns one question into a living map of answers. Ask anything and get a structured answer split into sections. Tap any section to go deeper, or highlight any passage and ask a follow-up from it. Every branch becomes a node on a live mind map โ€” your whole line of inquiry, laid out where you can see it. WHY FORK AI Chat apps bury your research in an endless scroll. fork ai keeps it as a map: each tangent gets its own branch, each branch keeps its context, and the whole session stays navigable โ€” and yours to keep. WHAT YOU CAN DO โ€ข Ask once, branch forever โ€” every answer is split into sections you can expand into new branches โ€ข Highlight any passage and ask AI about exactly that โ€ข Mix multiple branches into a new synthesis with the Mixer โ€ข Watch your inquiry grow on a live, zoomable mind map โ€ข Save highlights as notes and callouts โ€ข Export any session to Notion as a structured page โ€ข Share a session with a link โ€” no login needed to read it โ€ข Choose your model per branch: Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, or GLM โ€ข Optional web search with cited sources and footnotes โ€ข Get a notification when a long research run finishes Start free โ€” no credit card required. Your first question is one tap away.

Screenshots

Mentes Chat4 screens
fork ai3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mentes Chat at none against fork ai's 2. fork ai's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. fork ai sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Mentes Chat asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Mentes Chat versus fork ai: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMentes Chatfork ai
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size14 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSriram BalasubramanianGokul Madathupalyam Chinnappan

In-app purchases

None

Mentes Chat

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

fork ai

One-time2
  • $5 Credit$6.99
  • $10 Credit$13.99

Questions

Is Mentes Chat free?
Mentes Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is fork ai free?
fork ai is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mentes Chat or fork ai have ads?
Neither Mentes Chat nor fork ai shows ads.

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